Crossword Puzzle Number 1735 (Large Grid)

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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. (botany) A covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts.
9. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
13. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
16. Step on it.
17. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
18. A Spanish river.
19. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
22. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
26. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Cataflam).
29. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
31. Lessen the density or solidity (of a substance).
32. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
39. A state in New England.
44. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
45. (prefix) Half or partial.
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. Made of or resembling lace.
51. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
53. A common European bird of prey.
55. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
56. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
57. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
58. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
59. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
61. 1 species.
63. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
64. A state in midwestern United States.
65. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
67. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
68. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
70. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
72. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
74. A quantity of no importance.
75. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
78. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
80. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
83. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
84. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
88. The act of scanning.
92. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
93. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
94. Especially one side of a leaf.
95. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
97. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
98. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
99. American novelist (1909-1955).
100. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
101. Being one more than nine.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
3. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. Of or like a cecum.
6. Relating to or near the ulna.
7. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
8. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
9. A boy or man.
10. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
11. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
12. The longest division of geological time.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. Divulge information or secrets.
15. Male red deer.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. Turned into ice.
28. Great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor.
30. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
33. An ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean.
36. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
37. Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods.
38. A farewell remark.
40. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
41. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
42. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
43. Any plant of the genus Erica.
46. The univalent radical CH3- derived from methane.
47. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
49. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
52. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
60. Type genus of the Saturniidae.
62. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
64. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
66. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
73. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
74. A committee having supervisory powers.
76. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
77. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
79. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
81. A very light brown.
82. Pulled or drawn tight.
85. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
86. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
87. A city of central China.
89. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
90. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
91. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
92. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
96. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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